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1. CAUSES OF
COLD WAR
1945 - 1991
Political Science Lecture
International Relation
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2. The Ideological Factors
Lasting from the end of World War II in 1945 until the early
1990s, the Cold War was one of the most significant events of
the 20th century. While the Cold War is remembered for many
of the important events that occurred during its timeframe,
including the major wars in both Vietnam and Korea, the
Cuban Missile Crisis and the build-up and fall of the Berlin
Wall, it is also remembered for the ideological conflict that
occurred during the time.

3. WW-II Time Conflicts
World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved
virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The
principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy,
and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United
States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. The war
was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-
year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. The
40,000,000–50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the
bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in history.

4. Churchill’s Fulton Speech
In one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in
Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,
an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Churchill’s speech is
considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the
Cold War.

5. Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to
counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to
Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed
on July 12, 1948, when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. Direct
American military force was usually not involved, but Congress appropriated
financial aid to support the economies and militaries of Greece and Turkey. More
generally, the Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations allegedly
threatened by Soviet communism. The Truman Doctrine became the foundation of
American foreign policy, and led, in 1949, to the formation of NATO, a military
alliance that is still in effect. Historians often use Truman's speech to date the start
of the Cold War.

6. Cominform & Yugoslavia Became Non -
Alignment
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states that are not formally
aligned with or against any major power bloc. As of 2012, the movement has 120
members.
It was established in 1961 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. An initiative of Yugoslav
president Josip Broz Tito and Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru led to the
first Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries.
The term non-aligned movement appears first in the fifth conference in 1976,
where participating countries are denoted as "members of the movement".

7. NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization also called the North Atlantic
Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North
American and European countries. The organization implements the North
Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. NATO constitutes a system
of collective defence whereby its independent member states agree to
mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. NATO’s
Headquarters are located in Haren, Brussels, Belgium, while
the headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near Mons, Belgium.

8. Chinese Revolution & Korean War
In 1950 the newly formed People’s Republic of China became embroiled in
a significant conflict in Korea. Communist China was not prepared for
another war – particularly one involving the United States, Great Britain and
other Western powers. Its economy was already disorganised and
exhausted by years of war against the Japanese and the Nationalists. But
with the Korean peninsula on China’s doorstep, and a communist
ally threatened by foreign invasion, Mao Zedong could not ignore the
unfolding crisis there.

9. The Suez Canal Crisis
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli War, also named the Tripartite
Aggression in the Arab world and Operation Kadesh or Sinai War in Israel,
was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United
Kingdom and France. The aims were to regain Western control of
the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser,
who had just nationalized the canal. After the fighting had started, political
pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union and the United
Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders. The episode humiliated
the United Kingdom and France and strengthened Nasser.

10. Berlin War
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced was a
guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically
divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the
German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany),
starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West
Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and
East Berlin until government officials opened it in November
1989.

11. Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962 the
Caribbean Crisis or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962)
confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning
American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet
ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the
closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.

12. The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as
the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict
that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall
of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was
officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam.
The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other
communist allies; the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United
States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-
communist allies.

13. Berlin Wall Collapse - 1989
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German
Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a
barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or
“antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official
purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from
entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but
it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections
from East to West.

14. Separation of USSR - 1991
The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on
26 December 1991, officially granting self-
governing independence to the Republics of
the Soviet Union (USSR). It was a result of the
declaration number 142-Н of the
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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